Industry Keynote
Madison Maxey
Madison Maxey is passionate about materials. She focuses on bringing flexible, robust circuitry (e-textiles) to scale as CEO and founder at Loomia. Throughout the course of her work at Loomia, she has developed e-textiles prototypes and workshops for small businesses and Fortune 50s alike.
Maddy’s work has built the foundation for several patents and has lead to invitations to lecture at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, NYU and University of Illinois Champaign Urbana.
In addition to e-textiles, Maddy has performed computational design and physical computing work for the F.I.T Museum, Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, CNBC’s Jump Jive and Thrive and Google Creative Lab. She has also held creative technology residences at the School of Visual Arts, Autodesk, and Pratt’s BF+DA where she won the BF+DA Technology Innovation Award.
Topic: What I’ve Learned from 10 Years in E-Textiles
Over the past decade, e-textiles have evolved from experimental prototypes to a serious contender as an engineering material. In this talk, I’ll share lessons learned from ten years of building, testing, and deploying e-textile systems across industries ranging from automotive to robotics. We’ll look at the unique challenges of durability, manufacturability, and integration, as well as the unexpected advantages textiles bring to engineering design. Along the way, I’ll highlight key breakthroughs, common misconceptions, and where I see the most exciting opportunities ahead. Whether you’re an engineer, designer, or innovator, this session will provide a grounded perspective on how e-textiles can move from lab curiosity to high-impact technology.
Academia Keynote
Dr. Jun Chen
Dr Jun Chen is currently an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on soft matter innovation for healthcare and energy. He has published two books and 380 journal articles, with 280 of them being corresponding authors in Nature Review Bioengineering (1), Nature Materials (3), Nature Electronics (10), Nature Biotechnology (2), Nature Chemical Engineering (2) , Nature Biomedical Engineering (1), Nature Communications (10), Science Advances (6), Chemical Reviews (2), Chemical Society Reviews (2), among others. He also filed 18 US patents, including one licensed. With a current h-index of 126, Dr. Chen was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science on the Web of Science. Among his many accolades are the V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award (1 faculty per year in UCLA Samueli School of Engineering), ACS Nano Lectureship, Shu Chien Early Career Award, MRS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, Hisako Terasaki Young Innovator Award, Stephanie L Kwolek Prize, Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE) Rising Star Award, ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, BMES CMBE Rising Star Award, UCLA Faculty Mentor Award, UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award, Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40, ONR Young Investigator Award, AHA Innovative Project Award, AHA Transformational Project Award, AHA’s Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award, NIH UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award, BBRF Young Investigator Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, Advanced Materials Rising Star, Materials Today Rising Star Award, Chem. Soc. Rev. Emerging Investigator Award, Nano Research Young Innovator Award, ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024, among others.
Beyond his research activities, Dr. Chen serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Med-X, and an associate editor for Biosensors and Bioelectronics, MRS Communications, FlexMat, Soft Science, cMat, and Textiles. Additionally, he is a member of the advisory and editorial boards of over 20 journals, including Matter, Materials Today, Materials Today Energy, Cell Reports Physical Science, The Innovation, Nano Trends, Biomedical Technology, among others.
Title of presentation: Smart Textiles for Personalized Health Care
The current healthcare systems based on disease management are suffering from limited, delayed, and inefficient medical services, especially when confronted with the pandemic and the aging population. Health care should move from its current reactive and disease-centric system to a personalized, predictive, preventative, and participatory model with a focus on disease prevention and health promotion. Textiles have been concomitant and played a vital role in the long history of human civilization. Equipping traditional textiles with diagnostic, therapeutic, and power supply capabilities can unlock electronic textiles as a point-of-care system with incomparable wearing comfort. In this talk, I will introduce our research progress in smart textiles for biomonitoring, therapeutics, power supply, and textiles body area network for personalized health care. I will showcase the platform technologies, fabrication strategies, and clinical translation of smart textiles.
References
1. A. Libanori, G. Chen, X. Zhao, Y. Zhou, J. Chen*. Nat. Electron. 5, 142-156 (2022)
2. G. Chen, X. Xiao, X. Zhao, T. Tat, M. Bick, J. Chen*. Chem. Rev. 122, 3, 3259 (2022)
3. G. Chen, Y. Li, M. Bick, J. Chen*. Chem. Rev. 120, 8, 3668 (2020)
4. Y. Fang, G. Chen, M. Bick, J. Chen*. Chem. Soc. Rev. 50, 9357-9374 (2021)
5. J. Yin, S. Wang, T. Tat, J. Chen*. Nat. Rev. Bioeng. 2, 541–558 (2024)
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